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Posted on 07.13.08 by Widge @ 5:41 pm
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.  You know, we post stuff all the time about "Isn't this amazing, I wish we could just go rob a bank and buy it." But I'm going to chuck them all out the window. All of them. The Cartoon Network auction stuff, the Flux Capacitor, the art of AlexCF, and yes, even the Ecto-1. Because AbeBooks is selling a first edition hardback of Hitchhiker's Guide. Um. Along with Douglas Adams' typewriter. Signed by him. I know. I know. We could start a religion with the damned thing. If I were you, I would print out the picture of it, tape it to the wall in front of your keyboard, and anytime you feel like you've got writer's block or you're doing something that won't make you rich so you can afford to shell out US$25K to grab something like this--which is, let's face it, probably the geek equivalent of being offered up the True Cross--you'll get your ass in gear. I know I'm going to. For shorthand, you can simply say "Typewriter." And those of us who know, will nod and Understand. Found via The Steampunk Workshop. Categorized as: Books
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Posted on 06.24.08 by Widge @ 11:57 pm
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. Here we have the story that inspired myriad others, including Jacob's Ladder and of course, this adaptation which appeared as part of The Twilight Zone. Direct link for the feedreaders. Update: Took me a bit to find it. From Bierce's Devil's Dictionary: BIRTH, n.
The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar. Categorized as: Books
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Posted on 06.23.08 by Widge @ 8:56 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. The Neil pointed this out. And it will ruin your day. It takes any text and makes a cloud out of it, with the largest words obviously occurring the most often. So of course I had to go play with it. One is T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. The other contains the two Chapter Ones from my novel, Mystics.
Keep clicking to embiggen. Categorized as: Books
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Posted on 06.17.08 by Widge @ 10:35 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Bloomsbury is auctioning off two rounds of kickass books and letters and such. It will make you want to pull a heist in order to be able to effectively bid on some of these things. Like a signed limited first edition of Uncle Bill. Or first edition Dahl. Or first edition Holmes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Or letters from T.S. Eliot. That's happening this Thursday in New York at 2pm. Check out the lots here. Then there's the Children's Book Auction. Featuring scads of first edition Frank Baum. A signature from Lewis Carroll. A first edition Pooh from 1926. Again, one weeps with how poor one is. rel="nofollow"Check out those lots here. That one is happening Wednesday, June 25th, at 2pm. Also in New York. Book fiends, take note. And...hey, has anyone seen Doc? He tore out of here with a ninja squadron and then headed for the jump jet. Odd. Categorized as: Books
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Posted on 06.14.08 by Widge @ 2:06 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Russell Brand, who is insinuating himself into the American culture like an expert thanks to stuff like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, has snagged a two-year book deal with HarperCollins Worldwide. My Booky Wook, his autobiography, has been snagged as part of the deal and his first new book is due in the UK for Christmas. That's all well and good, but what about us stateside? Anyway, I love this quote, because it's typical Brand: "I am very pleased to get money for writing these books as I was going to write them anyway." If you don't know Brand, here's Categorized as: Books
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